The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-08
WHAT THEY SAID.

The Doctrines of the Convicted Anarchists as
Defined in Their Own Speeches.
The case of the condemned Anarchists in the
Supreme Court of Illinois is given in book
which forms the advance sheets of volume
CXXII Of the Illinois Reports. This valuable
contribution has been prepared by the Hon.
Norman L. Freeman, of Springfield official re-
porter of the Illinois Supreme Court and bears
date of Nov. 5. 1887. Dir. Freeman has collected
in convenient shape and style a mass of docu-
mentary evidence bearing upon the case of the
Anarchists. such their utterances, covering a
period of from one to two years previous to the
Haymarket wholesale homicide. These views
and opinions of the condemned men will be of
unusual interest at this time as showing their
opinions long and just before the Haymarket
trouble, their alleged grievances and the means
they advocated as the best suited and most like
ly to lead to the redressing of their real fan
cied wrongs. In every instance the quotations
given from Mr.. Freeman's work of 267 pages are
here reproduced by the Inter Ocean exactly as
Mr.. Freeman prints them. The extracts are as
follows:
scHwAB.
Schwab, in q speech at 8 gathering of work
lngmen. at Mueller's Hall, in the North division,
In June 1885, made the following remark (pub-
lished in the Arbeiter ZeitungJ Because we
know that the ruling class will never make any
concessions, therefore have. for all,
severed our connection with it, and made all
preparations for a revolution by force"
On Feb. is, 1886, Schwab at the Twelfth
street Turner Hail. in regard to the London
riots. made use of the following: ave greet the
London events as the announcement of the near
approach OF the social revolution"
Eat mass-meetine the lake 'front.' April
20. 1885, week before the Haymarket meeting
Schwab said: Every where police and murder
employed to grind down workingmen
For every workingman who has died through
he MIS- 0l 0f n cha laf% -,
ecutioners fall"
August Spies, at meeting held Oct III. 1885.
In Twelfth-street Turner Hall, introduced a Sc
res of resolutions in regard the eght-hour
movement TO be inaugurated May l, 1886, which
contained the following:
Whereas, 1t is expected that the class of pro-
fessional idlers-the governing class, who prey
upon the bones and marrow of the useful Nom
bers of socety-will resist this attempt by call
log to their assistance the Pinkertons the DO
ice and tie State militia; therefore. be it
Resolved, That we urge upon all wage-work-
ers the necessity of procuring arms before the
INAUGURATION of the proposed eight-hour strike
In order to be in a position of meeting our foe
with bis own argument-force.
PARSONS
On Feb. %, 1885, Parsons made o speech at
Baums Pavilion, in which he said: 81 want
rou all to unite together and throw off the woke
We need no President, no Copgressmen. no DO
ice. no militia, no judges. They are all leeches,
Iucking the blood of the poor, who have to sup
and ALL and let exterminate them ali
Woe to the police or the militia whom they send
>gainst u.s."
At meeting in Market square, in April 1855
PARSONS made speech to company of work
ngmen. in which he said: 1T is no use of areu-
De; we will never gain anything by argument
md words. The only way to convince these
capitalists and robbers Is to use the gun and dy-
iamite."
a meeting was held in April 1885, to denounce
he new Board of Trade. Parsons said ssIf we
would achieve liberation from economic
bondage, and acquire our natural rights to life
Ind liberty, every man must lay by part of
us wages buy Colts navy revolver, Win
hester rife, and learn how tc make and use
dynamite Then raise the flag OF rebellion the
Icarlet banner Of liberty, fraternity equality
Ind strike down 10 the earth every tvrant that
ives upon this GLOBE lCheers and cries, give
Parsons made speech on the lake front in
July 1885: He was speaking in a general way
about trouble with the workin gmen and the peo-
Die, what he called the proletariat class, and
spoke about their enemies as he termed them
The police and tia constituted authorities. He
laid that they were their enemies, and that they
would use force against them The authorities |
would use the police and the militia, and they |
would have to use force against them. He adj |
vised them to purchase rifles. If thew hadn't |
money enough to buy rifles, to buy pistols; and, |
they couldn't buy pistols, they could buy suf- |
hcient dynamite for % cents blow MP build |
ing the size of the Pullman building, and point
ed TO it,"
At a meeting in Grief's Hall. in August. 1885.
Parsons said in regard to the street.car strike.
"IE but one shot had been fired and Bonfeld |
had happened TO be shot. the whole CITY would
have been deluged in blood. and the social reyo-
luton would have been inaugurasedr
FIELDEN
Fielden, March 20. 1885. said at meeting
In Griefs Hall: "A few explosions in the city /